D&D Eberron: Race for the Crab Temple Coming to PAX East

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A new Dungeons & Dragons adventure set in Eberron is debuting at PAX East this weekend. Wizards of the Coast has announced that D&D Eberron: Race for the Crab Temple, a new D&D adventure set in Xen’drik, will make its convention debut at PAX East. The Level 3 adventure will feature premade characters made using 2024 Player's Handbook rules along with options from Eberron: Forge of the Artificer.

As its name suggests, Eberron: Forge of the Artificer will update the Artificer class for 2024 5th Edition rules. It will also update all Eberron-specific species for the revised ruleset. The new rulebook comes out on August 19, 2025.

The full description of the new Eberron adventure can be found below:

Your group has been dispatched by Morgrave University to travel to Xen’drik and seek out the Crab Temple. It’s a race between your expedition and a rival to discover its secrets! Premade level 3 characters are provided, featuring rules from the new Player’s Handbook and first looks at options from Eberron: Forge of the Artificer!
 
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Remathilis said:
Looks like they are doubling down
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At least that glass housing doesnt look like a balloon. I could believe it is something like a greenhouse for Air Elementals.

I guess any kind of spelljammer vehicle would fit in as well?



Xethreau said:
This would be cool to me if they advanced the setting 20 years or something. Otherwise it's revisionism, which they have mostly avoided thus far.
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Maybe it could be a different cultural region?
 



GarrettKP said:
So… anyone gotten to play this Adventure at PAX yet? 👀 mostly interested in player option changes.
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I played it. They supplied 3rd level pre-gen characters, but I did not see the sheet of the one Artificer character to see if anything was noticeably changed. As far as the Eberron species... I played the Shifter Bard but their shifting ability didn't seem appreciably any different than what we got in the original Rising book. I mean there probably was some slight differences for all I know, but without both version to compare and contrast there was no way for me to eyeball any differences. And as far as I could tell... none of the characters had dragonmarks either. In fact I didn't even notice if my character has an Origin feat at all.

Basically it felt no different than the characters one gets at any con game. Nothing special about the "pre-release" vibe.
 

DEFCON 1 said:
I played it. They supplied 3rd level pre-gen characters, but I did not see the sheet of the one Artificer character to see if anything was noticeably changed. As far as the Eberron species... I played the Shifter Bard but their shifting ability didn't seem appreciably any different than what we got in the original Rising book. I mean there probably was some slight differences for all I know, but without both version to compare and contrast there was no way for me to eyeball any differences. And as far as I could tell... none of the characters had dragonmarks either. In fact I didn't even notice if my character has an Origin feat at all.

Basically it felt no different than the characters one gets at any con game. Nothing special about the "pre-release" vibe.
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Damn, thank you for the report! Was there an Artificer in your party? If so did you catch what subclass? (Mostly wondering if Cartographer and if it was effective).
 


GarrettKP said:
Damn, thank you for the report! Was there an Artificer in your party? If so did you catch what subclass? (Mostly wondering if Cartographer and if it was effective).
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There was an Artificer, but I did not notice what their subclass was. With 7 players around the table we did not get much opportunity to show anything about our characters really.
 



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